About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
After a decent night’s sleep, here’s my thoughts on last night’s MPR talk. It was originally an email, so some things might read a little weird. First off, I’d like to thank MPR (et al) for bringing all of us together. I alway enjoy our time together. I think very highly of Dan Gillmor (and …
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I’m at the MPR, MNSPJ event on ethics in online journalism1 with the esteemed Dan Gillmor. Greg and Erica are live-blogging. “Most are not…and a few are.” – Dan Gillmor “It’s not about ‘or’, it’s about ‘and.” – Dan Gillmor Again, it’s hard for newspapers to correct themselves. Apologies aren’t news. Who do you trust? …
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Stop. I’ve uncovered these tips after (at least) the 3rd refactoring effort of some fairly simple, straight-forward Rails code. Rails is great for getting ideas prototyped super fast. These tips will slow down development and make apps less portable. Continue reading only if you’re running a live app in production and not happy with how …
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(formerly TweetSpeak, changed as to eliminate confusion with TweetSpeak.com) While I’m fond of the Twitter-as-water-cooler metaphor, there was something missing. Namely Twitter is quiet, and offices are filled with loud, distracting chatter. If you’re on a Mac you can now remedy this issue with TwitterCooler.app. TwitterCooler downloads your friends tweets and reads them to you …
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I’m on the local police department’s email announcement list. Earlier today, a ‘suspicious activity’ alert went out possible attempted burglary. Just now, I received the clarifying email: “…we have determined that the attempted burglary was, in fact, an individual who went to the wrong address.” This message says so many good things about the police …
In last night’s talk with MN ISPI on wikis, blogs, etc – the issue of citing Wikipedia as a source came up. Like citing the 1911 version of Brittanica is the same as citing the current version. A strawman argument. One based on false assumptions. Assumptions that established organizations don’t have biases, aren’t infallible, and …
If you’ve ever wondered what New York would be like if it remained a Dutch colony until the late 1700s? I’m thankful we finally have an answer. “New Netherland achieved independence in 1798, after the ‘old’ Netherlands were overrun by the French. Philip Schuyler, the last Director-General of the colony, became the first Prime Minister …
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As I’ve mentioned before, our lives are multi-faceted. Each facet has its own community of trusted experts. Some are friends, other are colleagues, or simply authoritative in their field. If you’ve been following my development of Cullect, then you know early on, I switched from the label ‘Editors’ to ‘Curators’ to describe the people behind …
@CraigPratchett – my review of Born Rich from June ’06 http://tinyurl.com/2r3ugt # just got pulled into http://www.naymz.com/ – yah, even w/ it’s downtime, Twitter is my favorite and my best # is @ Kopplins for my first day back doing client work….well for the next 39 minutes of battery life. # @geniodiabolico, just wanted to …
potty training stats: hours to pants ratio; 3:5 # "treat your users as owners"…another principle behind @cullect – cullect/1: http://culld.us/687441 # "The slicker you make your show, the more it looks like a Pepsi commercial. It also gets less interesting to me " http://culld.us/687256 … # IL2: MPR’s rebroadcast of last night’s debates. Definitely not …